Posts Tagged ‘Bobbie Mickens’

Pompous music lovers will tell you that the idea of a league table of classical composers is offensive and frivolous. You can’t say that Bach is “better” than Handel, they insist, or compare sym...
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[NB: It seems from the comments thread that I need to spell this out. If Mickens had merely referred to Benedict as "the Rat", that would have hardly merited a blog post: we all know Bobbie hates him....
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Goodness me, the things people write on Facebook: This is a photograph of the newly elevated Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, 98-year-old former secretary to Blessed Pope John XXIII, who received h...
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Worried that, when the name of the new Pope is announced, you won't know whether he's liberal, conservative, traditionalist, progressive, whatever? Fear not! You can work it out by watching the face o...
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From Saturday's Daily Telegraph Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the launch of euro banknotes and coins in 12 European Union countries. Are you excited? Not half as excited as the BBC was at the ti...
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I'm not sure where the blog Spintered Sunrise is coming from, exactly – it's been running since 2006 and is heavily preoccupied with Irish politics – but recently its author, whoever he is, has de...
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In this week's Tablet, Robert Mickens announces that he has been to his first full celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. Yes, that's right: the Rome correspondent of a Catholic magazine, who has ...
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